Pic of the day:  First Stanley cup.  A pic of the Montreal Hockey club  after winning the first ever Stanley cup in 1893. _______________________________ Now, before I get to my picks I have to make a statement.  It was a complete and total aberration that I picked all four winners for the second round.  Shocked [...]

Pic of the day:  First Stanley cup.  A pic of the Montreal Hockey club  after winning the first ever Stanley cup in 1893. Hmmm…. Deja Vu… _____________________________ A few times a year I put on my prognosticators hat and try to figure out what will happen in the NHL playoffs before they actually happen.  Silly [...]

Pic of the day: Carpenter at work on Douglas Dam, Tennessee (1942) _________________________ I love hard work. I live to sweat, to earn my daily bread by the sweat of my brow. I haven’t worked all week and frankly that is no damn good. I’ve been sitting on my ass not making money. It kicks [...]

Pic of the day:  First Stanley cup.  A pic of the Montreal Hockey club  after winning the first ever Stanley cup in 1893. ___________________________ It’s gonna be a party.  A big party.  A big messy ass whupping party in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.  Here are my WILDLY INACCURATE picks for the [...]

8:00pm  – 10:30 pm: As I write this, I am listening to the news from Lake Wobegon and Garrison Keillor.  I’ve just finished doing some writing, about the Iowa caucuses and a story on e-book piracy.  Both were pretty easy, neither took all that long, and the preparatory research barely took an hour for each [...]